Singles were still considered important, though many pretended they weren’t when tending to see them as somehow limiting or not serious, and in some cases even throw away (Hawkwind used to sing their one hit as ‘Washing’, not ‘Silver Machine’ fortunately their classic ‘Master Of The Universe’ is preferred here). What we have here is rock in its appropriate geological time-strata. Apart from that term’s truer meaning, well-reflected here, the various new styles were simply developments, some more natural than others. They were misguidedly lumped together at the time as “Progressive”, at least by some journalists. The year certainly was one of the heydays of hard rock, jazz rock, space rock, folk rock and blues rock, indeed most genres “hardened” as equipment for stage and studio developed. Powell’s booklet opinion that it was “the dominating force” (a few of this wide selection were singles anyway). That time saw vinyl albums emerging as serious market product, though I find it hard to agree with Mr. Breakthrough – ‘Underground Sounds of 1971’ (2022) The year 1971 is celebrated in a lush anniversary four CD box set from Esoteric Records via Cherry Red.
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